Central Library, JNU Cordially invites you to the 25th Library Lecture Series and Outreach Programme Topic: Digital Disruption in Libraries Speaker Mr. Prashant Pandey Director Content Development State Library of Queensland South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Chairperson Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Sharma, Director-CIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University Date: Friday, 27th November 2015 at 3.00 pm Venue : Committee Room, Central Library, JNU About the talk : In the age of digital deluge and emerging disruptions like Uber, AirBnB what's in store for Libraries? Are Libraries going to fade into oblivion as museum of books or disrupt the information domain to emerge as the champions in the big and open data for the years to come. About the Speaker Prashant Pandey is currently the Director of Content Development program at the State Library of Queensland. He leads the Content Strategy, Digital Strategy and Online Engagement Strategy for the Library. His program provides visitors to State Library with physical and virtual access to Queensland’s diverse collections and services. Collection strengths include the Australian Library of Art, the John Oxley Library of Queensland history, and one of Australia’s foremost music collections. Services include onsite and virtual information services (including free statewide access to a number of eresources), free internet access, business information, photographic and digital reproduction, preservation and conservation. Previously, He was Director – Digital Library & Innovation at Deakin University where he was responsible for providing leadership and direction in delivering Deakin University’s Digital Library of the future. In 2012 his team won two Vice Chancellors award for outstanding contribution to academic support and building effective partnerships through the successful embedding of the institutional repository (Deakin Research Online, DRO) within the Deakin research landscape. He started his library journey as Senior Information Technologist in the Digital Resource Services section of the University of South Australia’s library and over this period was responsible for establishing the Digital Institutional Repository and the development of the software in support of the open access initiative. He has also worked with VTLS, an international library system vendor. As Director for Asia Pacific Operations and Manager VITAL product. He has a very high level of understanding of the technological and digital opportunities the Library may embrace as it moves towards the delivery of its Digital Library Strategy. He is passionate about everything open; open source, open access, big & open data (linked) and open standards/formats/frameworks. See https://au.linkedin.com/in/pandeyp and for more details ************************************ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian & Chair- ETD 2015 India Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66@gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile:http://lib.jnu.ac.in/Ramesh_C_Gaur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.